Spez looks like Ken trying to figure out how the human world works in “Barbie”

Gmail has far worse ads that crawl your inbox. A free service asking me to pay for hosting isn’t the end of the world

Google didn’t lead me to those channels, but still the point stands, trust is eventually delegated to individuals and that is always a security flaw.

All I meant was, the same is still true with the mainstream media

It’s not a contradiction if I elaborate on what’s bullshit. The framing of that article associates people who do their own research as conspiracy theorists. I was pointing out (and gave plenty of evidence) that listening to the mainstream media to form your decisions would be just as deluding as accepting any other conspiracy theory as true.

This is not to say the article itself is necessarily wrong , but if the alternative to doing your own research is trusting the mainstream media, then either way you’re digesting a false narrative.

Actually, if all you did was trust CNN or Fox news, I would probably think that person was less credible than a conspiracy theorist, but of course they would depend on which conspiracies

Left wing mainstream media may be pro science, but they rarely report good scientific articles. They report science headlines because their target demographic trusts scientists. So it can be more influential in setting an agenda

As mod of conspiracy_theories, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that’s bullshit

If you listened to the mainstream media, the last few years you’d think the economy was booming. If you did your own research and listen to experts like Adam Taggart or Wealthion, fractures in the housing market were apparent for almost a year before the mainstream media started reporting that

We grew up being told we fight for freedom when really we fight for a fascist apartheid ethnostate in the middle east

We grew up being told Weed was worse than alcohol

We grew up being told if you didn’t go to college, you couldn’t get a job, while cost of tuition and textbooks outpaced inflation

The media doesn’t exist to inform people. Whether your left or right wing I think that’s something everyone can agree on. From a political science standpoint, the media exists to create an agenda. Often times, that includes misinforming people.

Can doing your own research get you into some conspiracy theories? Sure. The problem with that is everyone’s conspiring, even the mainstream media

That’s just basic psyops, Russia also has a successful history of propping up opposing factions.

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt [FUD] are tools to misinform people and erode trust in their social organizations, so that a malicious actor can divide and conquer their enemy

Oh no, they’re only going to lower interest rates when the economy takes a shit again

How do you know that truth in particular is the answer?

It’s gonna be a long transition haha, but I’ve learned a lot about OSs over the years just using CLI in Ubuntu, I’m looking forward to nix as something I’ll struggle with for the next few years haha

I’ve been running an Ubuntu base for years, but windows kept overwriting the boot loader so I finally cracked. Been wanting to switch to Debian for a while and nix seemed desirable for its functional design paradigm

You inserted brackets “[the Jews]”, but the text refers to Zionists. This is not the same. One could be interpreted as anti colonial, while your edits implies it’s against an ethnicity

RCS is like sms2.0, it supports better group chats, larger higher quality file transfers, read receipts… That sorta thing

The Nazis forced Jews into ghettos. Gaza is a ghetto that Palestinians are forced to live in.

Zionists will not however, directly kill every Palestinian. They will indirectly try to kill every Palestinian by colonizing every last inch of land from the Palestinians. The ones that immigrate away will be too scattered to maintain a coherent ethnicity, and eventually their culture will be erased.

So, while practically speaking they’re not as bad as Nazis, they are as effective as Nazis, if not more so.

Interesting, I actually know a couple conservatives that are anti globalism, which justified their anti Israel stance. However, the conservatives I know that are party aligned due to religious preferences… that’s another story

https://youtu.be/QdQixEQpbAc?si=PDPL-rjk2T9Kiu_l&t=1272

Bitcoin is still Bitcoin. Bitcoin classic, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin gold… All are just garbage scams forking off Bitcoin

I think part of it is how lemmy sorts content. It doesn’t weigh the number of posts per sub the way reddit did, allowing disproportionately larger niches to dominate (like Linux or NSFW in my case)

I’m on sync for lemmy, which allows filtering users, communities, or instances. My feed has gotten a lot better with this

Lol it’s the government. But to be honest, it’s a pretty good deal. If you’re not ambitious, you have an easy safe cushy life. If you are ambitious, you have time and security to try things your way

I have a job where the unspoken agreement is they under pay you but you get to underwork proportionally to your favor. I’m more ambitious so I spend the free time on more work. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is more of a benefit to software people than most workers